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1 Charles Beecher, God of the Bible against Slavery 1 (1855)

handle is hein.religion/gdbiaslv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ANTI-SLAVERY TRACTS. No. 17. THE GOD OF THE BIBLE AGAINST SLAVERY. BY REV. CHARLES BEECHER. IT seems very strange that any one should think that the Bible sanctions slavery. Yet the defenders of the system appeal to the Bible with boldness, as if its authority were on their side. The Charleston Union Presbytery, South Carolina, declare, that the holding of slaves, so far from being a SIN in the sight of God, is nowhere condemned in his holy word. The Charleston Baptist Association 11 does riot consider that the Holy Scriptures have made the fact of slavery a question of morals at a~l. The Georgia Methodist Annual Conference resolved that slavery, as it exists in the United States, is not a moral evil. The Protestant Episcopal Society for the Advancement of Chris tianity declare in a tract, that without a neu, reclation from heaven, no man is authorized to pronounce slavery wrong. Rev. James Sinylie, of Mississippi, (endorsed by two Presbyteries,) says, The tweuty-fifth chapter of Leviticus clearly and uiequivo. cally establi-.hs tiw fact, that slavery was sanctioned by God him- self, and that bu ving, selling, holding and bequeathing slaves, as property, :nl-(e regulatinis whicl are established by himself. Rev. Thomas S. With ,e'spoon says, I draw my warrant from the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, to hold the slave in bondage. Dr. Fuller says, I find my Bible condemning the abuses of ,Slavery, but PERMITTING THE SYSTEM ITSELF. ' Statements like these could be brought from sources of high I (I)

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